Information from the internet

Booking.com is a search engine for people searching hotels, guest houses, hostels and other accommodation options.

The headquarter of Booking.com is in Amsterdam and this Online Travel Portal/ Search engine has more than 30 million accommodation listed on it.

In India, Booking.com provide Pay at Hotel option where a traveller can choose or indicate the hotel that he or she will be arriving on certain dates and they will make the payment at the reception.

Expedia.com is an Online travel agency that is own by Expedia Group and has its headquarter (till today) at Washington, USA.

This website lets accommodation providers to list their business on their site and manage their room inventory through a CMS, which is provided by Expedia.com, and all this allows customers to make instant room booking.

Along with Hotel booking in India, one can also make airline booking, car rentals and tour packages from Expedia India, which is expedia.co.in.

Cleartrip.com is a India based online travel portal, which offers hotel booking, air tickets and tour activities for travellers planning to visit India.

Cleartrip also has its presence in the countries of Middle east like UAE, Saudi Arabia and in Egypt too.

Some of the best feature of Cleartrip is that here you can choose hotels as per theire reviews received on Tripadvisor, which lets the user know that the hotel they are planning to book is worth staying or not.

Tripadvisor.com (And Tripadvisor.in in India) is a tourism related website that lets user list & review hotels, restaurants, activities, flights etc as per their experience with that business.

At Tripadvisor, users are also very much engaged in forums where they ask questions related to their trip planning, visa, and experience of other tourists.

Today on Tripadvisor, many tour activity companies are also listing their activities which one can buy from Tripadvisor and Tripadvisor also has a dedicated domain for activities, that is Viator.com